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Saturday, January 24, 2004
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NO: THE ADMINISTRATION DID NOT BELIEVE IN THE WMD THREAT -- AND THE PROXIMITY OF EVIL. It appears that, in the wake of David Kay himself giving up the WMD ghost, the questions on many people's minds are simply these Did the Bush administration itself genuinely believe that Saddam represented a grave imminent threat to the United States, and did the administration think that Saddam truly had dangerous stocks of WMD? (The question has been addressed here and here, among other places.)
The answer in both cases is very clearly a resounding, emphatic "No!" In fact,... [The Light of Reason]
On balance, I think the likelihood is that the administration did not really believe the WMD threat they publicly and repeatedly claimed that Iraq represented. Because if they did, think about what that would mean: it would necessarily mean that, among other things, they deliberately put innocent American soldiers -- people who had voluntarily put their lives on the line in defense of this nation -- in the direct path of great, possibly fatal, harm, and that they simply didn't give a damn. I have an extraordinarily low opinion of almost everyone in the Bush administration, but even I am reluctant to ascribe that degree of evil to them.
Personally, I'm not so reluctant.
6:23:18 PM 
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The ADA Racket. The current issue of City Journal features an article The ADA Shakedown Racket. This article describes a trend of entrepreneurial lawyers filing multiple lawsuits against business for violionts of ADA regulations. The lawsuits are filed on behalf of disabled people... [Mises Economics Blog: Austrian Economics and Libertarian Political Theory]
From the text of a recruitment letter quoted in the article, it looks like the lawyers are being quite open about the nature of their looting.
10:46:48 AM
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